Teresa, My Love: An Imagined Life of the Saint of Avila

Abbreviations and Chronology

ABBREVIATIONS

The Book of Her Foundations: Found., followed by number and paragraph

The Book of Her Life: Life, followed by chapter and paragraph

The Constitutions: Const., followed by the paragraph number

Letters: Letter, followed by letter number

Meditations on the Song of Songs: Medit., followed by chapter and paragraph

On Making the Visitation: Visitation, followed by number and paragraph

Poems: Poems, followed by title

A Satirical Critique (Vejamen): Critique

Soliloquies (Exclamations): Sol., followed by number and paragraph

Spiritual Testimonies (Relations): Testimonies, followed by number and paragraph

The Interior Castle: Roman numeral, followed by D (Dwelling Places), chapter, and paragraph

The Way of Perfection: Way, followed by chapter and paragraph

CHRONOLOGY OF WORKS

1560–1563

Testimonies

1–3

1562

First draft of

The Book of Her Life

1563

First draft of the

Constitutions

1565

The Book of Her Life

1566–1567

The Way of Perfection

1567

The Constitutions

of the Discalced Nuns

1569

New series of lesser

Testimonies

: 8–27

1573

The Book of Her Foundations

, chaps. 1–26

1575–1576

Testimonies

4–5

1576

Manner of Visiting Monasteries

; continuation of

Foundations

, chaps. 21–27

1577

The Interior Castle

1577–1580

Letters

(almost 200)

1581

Testimonies

6

1580–1582

Completion of

Foundations

(chaps. 28–31)

1581–1582

Final letters (around 100)

The Soliloquies, the Meditations on the Song of Songs (predating The Interior Castle), and the Poems are difficult to date with accuracy.

REFERENCES

The English translations used for all quotations from Teresa of Avil a come from the following sources.

The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila. trans. Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodríguez. 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: ICS, 1976–1985.

The Collected Letters of St. Teresa of Avila. trans. Kieran Kavanaugh. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: ICS, 2001–2007.

Any italics in quotations have been added by Julia Kristeva.